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game.ini Explained

Understanding the game.ini

The great thing about ARK is the freedom to change many of it's game settings, however some of these settings can be very confusing, and some often seem like they are listed twice, when in-fact they are just simular settings that do very different jobs!

To make understanding these settings easier we have listed a full break down of what each setting does!

Per Level Stat Multipliers - Players, Tamed Dinos and Wild Dinos.

There are 12 settings avalible for change under each of these catagories, changing these stats multiplies the amount of that stat gained per level.

Health Per Level

Stamina Per Level

Torpidity Per Level - How hard it is to be knocked out, the higher this is the harder it is for you to fall unconscious

Oxygen Per Level

Food Per Level

Water Per Level

Temprature Per Level

Weight Per Level - This doesn't mean you need to go on a diet, it means you can cary more!!

Mele Damage Per Level - Determines how hard you can slap a T-rex in the face!!

Speed Per Level

Fortitude Per Level - How well you deal with temprature - For Scorched Earth or mountains we reccomend players reach at least 40 fortitude

Crafting Speed Per Level

Maximum Tribe Logs: The amount of tribe activity tribe members / leaders can see (Limmited to 500 to stop lag issues)Hair Growth Speed: How quickly hair grows backGlobal item Decomposition: How quick items on the floor decomposeCorpse Decomposition: How quickly your body decomposesDino Turret Damage: How much damage turrets do to dinosDino Harvesting: how much wood, berries etc... a dino harvests per hitCrafting skill: Improves the likely quality of crafted items such as crossbowsCustom Recipe Skill: Improves the likely quality of crafted recipesCrafting XP: The amount of XP gained for craftingGeneric XP: The amount of XP gained by pretty much doing nothing - can be disabled or reducedHarvest XP: Amount of XP gained from harvesting - can be disabled or reducedKill XP: The amount of XP gained for killing dinos or playersSpecial XP: The amount of XP gained from Explorer notesPoop Interval: How often dinos poopCrop Growth speed: How fast crops growCrop Decay: How fast crops dieFishing loot Quality: The quality of loot gained from fishing - higher = better fishing lootPVP Zone Structure Damage: Amount of damage done to player buildings within caves or PVP based areasSpoil time: How fast items spoilPlatform Saddle Multifloor: Allows more than one floor on all platformsEnable Corpse locator: Sends a beacon to show players where their dead bodies areUnlimited Respecs: Can respec without limitation or the need to level upDisable Structure Collision: If disabled building parts can sit in walls, helpfull for smart flush against mountain style basesDisable loot crates: No supply dropsDisable PVE Friendly Fire: Stops you shooting or hurting tribe matesPVE Allow Tribe War: In PVE games two tribes can declare warPVE Tribe war cancel: Tribes can cancel their warsNumber of players per tribe: limmit the amount of players per tribe and stop massive tribes dominating the serverOverride Max Experiance points: has a setting for both dino and player, allows you to set a new maximum level for bothIncrease PVP Respawn interval: Increases the amount of time it takes for a player to respawn after another player has killed them - can also be reducedPassive Defenses Damage Riderless Dinos: turrets and X/Y-plants can attack riderless dinos or not

We are currently working on our ARK service and even more settings will be added soon allowing you even more freedom to alter your server exactly the way you want it to be.